Dolly Alderton Instagram – 52 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list! The book we couldn’t sell to America!
Here’s a glut of Everything I Know About Love nostalgia – the terrible titles it didn’t end up being, the room/cupboard in which I wrote it in my last girls flat-share, the Camden flat the book enabled me to rent alone, the October 2016 aura photograph that told me my life was about to change, the Private Eye cartoon that could have been soooooo much worse. I am so glad I wrote that book. I wasn’t for a brief while. For a moment it felt like it hadn’t been worth telling everyone all my most embarrassing stories, but it was worth it. It is the book I’m always asked about, the book I will probably always be known for, no matter what else I write. It is the only book I’ve written that people quote from, often in wedding readings, which still blows my mind. In my early thirties when my love life was a disaster, I was being tagged in videos every day of couples celebrating their marriage with my words on love. The years after the book came out were so strange for so many reasons, most of which I never think about anymore. I’m grateful for the way it transformed my life and career and the way it connected me to the hundreds of thousands of women who saw their own lives and friendships in the story. It ended up being my lucky charm. If you have a room/cupboard covered in post-its and a draft file of terrible titles for a half-finished book – consider finishing it. I’m glad I finished mine. | Posted on 20/Jun/2024 20:45:55
